Re: WIP SDL packages

[Ludovic Courtès]

address@hidden (Ludovic Courtès) skribis:

> Commit 558a512 makes libx11 a propagated input, which seemed to be the
> right thing.
>
> I added SDL as an input for QEMU.  Now, when run directly, it just fails:
>
>   Could not initialize SDL(No available video device) - exiting
>
> Looking at strace, I found that it actually needed this:
>
>   LD_LIBRARY_PATH=$(guix build libxext)/lib qemu-system-x86_64 ...
>
> IOW it dlopen’s libXext by default.  To avoid the trouble, I think SDL
> should either (1) have libXext in its RUNPATH, or (2) be explicitly
> linked against it (which is essentially equivalent.)

FYI commit 22f33e6 goes with option (1).

Ludo’.